Trey Burke scored all 23 of his points in the second half and
overtime, including a long, never-a-doubt 3-pointer to tie the game
in the final seconds of regulation, and Michigan rallied to beat
the Jayhawks 87-85 in the South Regional semifinals Friday
night.

McLemore, a freshman coming off two bad performances in his NCAA
tournament debut, had 20 points when he came out, but got off just
one more shot in the last 4 minutes of regulation and overtime.

Kansas (31-6) blew a 14-point lead in the last 6-plus minutes of
regulation and became the third No. 1 seed ousted after Gonzaga and
Indiana.

''Well, this will certainly go down as one of the toughest games
that obviously we've been a part of and I've been a part of,''
Kansas coach Bill Self said. ''But props to Michigan for making all
the plays late.''

The fourth-seeded Wolverines (29-7) were down five when Tim
Hardaway Jr. missed a 3-pointer with 35 seconds left, but Glenn
Robinson III won a scramble for the ball and hit a reverse layup to
force Kansas to win the game at the free throw line.

The Jayhawks couldn't do it. Burke's tying shot - he pulled up
from well beyond the arc just left of the key - came with 4.2
seconds left after Elijah Johnson missed a free throw moments after
hitting two to keep the Kansas lead at five. Burke had then scored
on a layup to get Michigan back to within three.

''We never had the mindset that we were going to lose the
game,'' Burke said. ''When we were down 14, we knew anything could
still happen. It's March, anything can happen.''

Michigan went to back-to-back championship games a generation
ago with the Fab Five led by Chris Webber, Juwan Howard and Jalen
Rose. But the folks in Ann Arbor will be talking for years about
the shot by Burke under the huge video board Cowboys Stadium, just
down the road from where Howard and Rose played their last game
together with Ray Jackson and Jimmy King in a regional final loss
to Arkansas in 1994.

The Wolverines will play the Florida-Florida Gulf Coast winner
the regional final Sunday.

''Just to be able to get this program back to the Elite Eight,
it feels good,'' Burke said. ''But we want to go further.''

The lead changed hands five times in overtime - the first OT
game of the tournament - the last when Mitch McGary, who led
Michigan with 25 points and 14 rebounds, hit a short jumper with
Johnson in his face to put Michigan ahead 83-82.

The Jayhawks got a stop and had about 9 seconds to tie or win,
but a jumbled possession ended with Naadir Tharpe missing a running
jumper at the buzzer.

''We played like we were trying to hold onto something instead
of just continuing to play,'' Johnson said.

Burke had eight points in the closing 14-4 run that tied the
game, then gave Michigan its first lead since early with another
long 3-pointer to make it 79-78 early in overtime. He hit a jumper
on the next possession as well. He ended his oh-fer night by
scoring eight straight points early in the second half to
momentarily cut the deficit to two.

''In the second half, coach told me to be more aggressive so I
looked for my shot more,'' he said.

But Kansas restored a 10-point lead built on dominating inside
in the first half, this time with a 3-pointer and a tomahawk dunk
on a breakaway by McLemore and a three-point play from Johnson.

Johnson, who picked up three fouls in just three minutes of
playing time in the first half, gave Kansas its biggest lead at
68-54 with a 3-pointer from the corner with just under 7 minutes
left.

Travis Releford had 16 points for the Jayhawks, while Jeff
Withey had 12 points and eight rebounds.

''We had chance to seal the game, but we made some bonehead
plays late,'' Releford said.

Kansas pushed out to a 10-point lead early by dominating around
the basket. McLemore's first basket was the first outside the paint
as the Jayhawks scored 34 of their 40 first-half points from inside
while shooting 69 percent.

Withey put Kansas ahead 29-19 with a turnaround shot that had
McGary shrugging at a teammate and saying, ''I'm trying.''

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